It Bears Repeating(some favorite words about teddy bears)

Even though there is a rip in your teddy bear, his love will not fall out. - Eve Frances Gigliotti, submitted by Ana-Liesa, Australia.

Let's be teddy bears in our next lifetime. Everybody
loves them, nobody cares if they're fat, and the older they
get, the more they're worth. - submitted by
Sherri

People believe in Teddy bears because Teddy bears believe
in people. Teddys count on people to get them down off of
shelves and into human arms. - submitted by Kathy
Cressman

There are only two Nations:- Those with Teddys and those
without.(I found this on a plaque at a craft fair here in
England, origin unknown. - Paul)

It is astonishing, really, how many thoroughly mature,
well-adjusted grown-ups harbor a teddy bear--which is
perhaps why they are thoroughly mature and well-adjusted.
--Joseph Lempa --
thanks to Brenda Lindley-Anderson (aka Brenda Bear) for this
quote.

Cuddly and warm, these calming creatures reassure me in the
days of doubt when fears fly before reason and the world
looms bleak instead of beautiful. The Teddy bear, all things
to all ages, all sizes for all preferences, symbol that all
is right with the world if one only
believes.--Anonymous

My Teddy was there when I had no friends to play
with, no one to talk to, no one to share my little woes or
my big joys. He looked constant and was constant. He never
aged, no matter how tattered he became. His smell was the
smell of my years as a boy, and he alone knew everything.
Now, when I see him on the shelf, he is like my flesh and my
soul--older, worn, but still full of
happiness.--Robert Kunciov

Teddy bears make great confessors, advisors, best
friends--and scapegoats. Whenever my mother prepared to
punish me for one misdeed or another, I would always be
ready with "Teddy did it!"--Anonymous

A Teddy bear will always care. When all else fails hug your
teddy. A teddy's heart is as big as his smile.
--Submitted by "Tess"

There is a personal relationship with teddy bears that
never releases its grip. Who can forget a real friend,
perhaps the only friend who really understood? The only one
who could see a polar bear on the lawn or a witch in the old
house in the woods? Or the only one who hugged you hard when
the ghost appeared at the bedroom window - Barbara
Werkmaster, Eva-Lena Bengsston and Per Peterson, Swedish
writers

I saw this one quote on a picture with some bears sitting
on a shelf:
"Please don't feed the bears, They're stuffed already." -
Author unknown
and another one from a picture with a well loved teddy:
"This is Me...I am a very Special Bear, the "Teddy" Kind of
Bear. These are not my first eyes, one got lost and our mom
got me a "almost the same size button, my tail has been
sow'd on 'Leventy nine times, I used to have hairs before i was
loved so hard, I have a very 'portant job to perteck my
person from spooky stuff in the night." submitted by
Kelli

Ursine Legends(stories about bears seen or heard in various news
reports)

Binky, a polar bear in the Anchorage Zoo
has become an Alaskan folk hero. In 1994, people twice
scaled fences to get closer to him. An Australian woman was
bitten and received a broken ankle and leg wounds from
Binky. She also lost one tennis shoe which Binky carried
around as his trophy for hours. Six weeks later two local
teens also climbed into Binky's territory. Binky scored one
leg bite, but no tennis shoe.

Griz and Cat - In Grants Pass, Oregon at
Wildlife Images (a wildlife rehabilitation center), a 560
pound grizzly bear, Griz, has adopted a stray kitten. In
July '95 four kittens were dumped at the wildlife center.
Three were trapped, but the fourth was elusive. Later in the
summer, the starving kitten squeezed through a hole in the
fence of Griz's pen and approached him as he was eating.
Everyone thought the kitten would become Griz's next meal,
but he pulled a piece of chicken out and dropped it down for
the kitten. Now the cat (named Cat) and Griz eat, sleep and
play together.

An update on Griz from John Meyers: According to a second hand report from a Paul Harvey Radio program: Griz grew to over 800 pounds and still ate, played and slept with Cat. Then Cat wandered off, Griz looked for Cat for several weeks and then died, probably from a broken heart. Sorry to pass on the sad ending but that is the rest of the story.